What is the relationship between Xuanzang and Tang Priest? Xuanzang travels to the west.

What is the relationship between Xuanzang and Tang Priest?

Speaking of Tang Xuanzang, many people think of The Journey to the West first. The Journey to the West is a great literary masterpiece created by Wu Cheng'en. It's a ghost novel. Mainly describes the story that the Monkey King and others protected Tang Priest and his disciples from going to the Western Heaven to worship Buddha for Buddhist scriptures, and * * * experienced eighty-one difficulties.

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The Journey to the West is one of the four classical novels of China. Perhaps many people have read this novel, and really understand the story between Tang Priest and his disciples, starting with the TV series The Journey to the West broadcast in 1986. This play is based on Wu Cheng'en's novel The Journey to the West. In the play, the Tang Priest was reincarnated as the Tathagata's apprentice. After becoming a monk, he devoted himself to seeking Buddha and embarked on the road of learning from the West. Along the way, he encountered difficulties and obstacles, but fortunately, he was persuaded by three well-connected disciples to protect him from going west. Finally, I survived the eighty-one difficulties, gained the truth, became a Tao, and returned to the Tang Dynasty.

Xuanzang, as we say, is the prototype of Tang Priest in the play. Xuanzang was a real person in the Tang Dynasty. His name before becoming a monk was Chen T. He became a monk because he was influenced by Buddhism since childhood. By chance, he learned that there were Buddhist monks in India, so he set foot on the road of seeking Buddha in the western regions regardless of difficulties and obstacles. After suffering, I finally got the true scriptures, studied Buddhism, and brought back a large number of Buddhist relics, scriptures and Buddha statues. Xuanzang's existence and experience of learning from the scriptures are all true stories recorded in historical facts. Therefore, it is on the basis of folklore, script and comedy that Wu Cheng'en integrated and recreated the story, thus completing this masterpiece. Therefore, the plot in the TV series is also very similar to the story of Xuanzang's difficult and dangerous acquisition of the Western Classics, but the plot in the drama is mythical. It's just that the real Xuanzang took three disciples on his way to the Tang Dynasty, but in the plot, he took three disciples at the beginning of learning the scriptures.

Therefore, Tang's monk is portrayed according to the true prototype of Xuanzang. Tang's monk is the mapping of the real character Xuanzang in novels and plays, which vividly reproduces Xuanzang's life story.

Xuanzang westbound

Everyone has seen the Journey to the West, and whether it is a TV series or a book, they must be very familiar with the character Tang Yan. This book tells the story of Tang Priest leading three disciples, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand, to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures, focusing on the hardships they encountered on the way and how to overcome them. So do you know who the Tang Priest was in history? He is Xuanzang. Today, let's take a look at the story of Xuanzang's westward journey.

Xuanzang westbound road map

Xuanzang was originally a descendant of Chen, a famous minister in the Han Dynasty. His father is also an official. Later, after he retired, he quietly studied Confucianism. However, Xuanzang studied Buddhism with his brother Master Chang Jie. He studied Mahayana Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism, and thought Mahayana Buddhism was better and could save lives. At that time, Mahayana Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty was not perfect, so Xuanzang decided to study Mahayana in the Western Regions.

However, during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, individuals were not allowed to leave the country privately. In 627, Xuanzang applied for * * *, but his application was rejected, so he quietly joined the ranks of businessmen and embarked on his own journey to the west. Xuanzang first walked out of Yumen Pass into the desert, then came to Gao Changguo and crossed the Pamirs. Overcome the difficulties and obstacles on the way, and finally reach the Buddhist holy land of Tianzhu.

Xuanzang stayed in Tianzhu for more than ten years. During this period, he studied Buddhism from many famous monks. He is persistent and never misses any learning opportunities. Xuanzang also traveled all over the western continent on foot. Finally, at an important Buddhist debate conference, with his extensive and profound Buddhism and his own practical experience, many monks were speechless, which was considered as Xuanzang. So in 643 AD, Xuanzang set off for the Tang Dynasty and brought 657 Buddhist scriptures back to Middle Earth. After he returned to Chang 'an, he was also received by Emperor Taizong, and then all the Buddhist scriptures he brought back were translated into Chinese. He was also considered as the most profound Buddhist monk at that time.

This is the story of Xuanzang's journey to the West. Of course, the novels of Journey to the West are all adapted from The Journey to the West of Xuanzang.